I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

In the thunder of life, without your light, I often lost my way.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.